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Re: [PATCH 1/3] driver-core: platform: Add platform_irq_count()

From Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 1/3] driver-core: platform: Add platform_irq_count()
Date 2016-01-07 10:40 +0100
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On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 2:12 AM, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> wrote:

> A recent patch added calls to of_irq_count() in the qcom pinctrl
> drivers and that caused module build failures because
> of_irq_count() is not an exported symbol. We shouldn't export
> of_irq_count() to modules because it's an internal OF API that
> shouldn't be used by drivers. Platform drivers should use
> platform device APIs instead. Therefore, add a platform_irq_count()
> API that mirrors the of_irq_count() API so that platform drivers
> can stay DT agnostic.
>
> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Andy Gross <andy.gross@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>

Patch applied with Rob's and Greg's ACKs.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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[PATCH 1/3] driver-core: platform: Add platform_irq_count() Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> - 2016-01-07 02:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 1/3] driver-core: platform: Add platform_irq_count() Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> - 2016-01-07 02:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 1/3] driver-core: platform: Add platform_irq_count() Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-01-07 02:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 1/3] driver-core: platform: Add platform_irq_count() Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> - 2016-01-07 10:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 1/3] driver-core: platform: Add platform_irq_count() Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2016-01-07 11:40 +0100

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